Monopoly pub crawl - Fenchurch street

Ian 20

Hangover Nip

Had our separation party for the sale of Lucozade & Ribena. Fancy dress at a local boozer - great night and I won best costume as Alan & Carlos.

Anyway we set up a scene from the movie with Richard who was dressed as a Jungle cat...

And of course the nip itself!

Ian 19

Forgotten Nip

We went to Krakow for my Dad's 70th birthday and did this one. Forgot I'd done it!

Krakow is really good - my Dad loved it as the beer was really cheap.

Ian 17

Floating nip.

Maybe it's cheating but I slipped two nips into the holiday :)

After the trek we had a couple of days at the Dead sea so this is instead of the usual picture of people floating while reading the paper.

Floating is proper odd, really difficult to stand up or do anything except float! On top of this the water is slimy and thick, quite warm and it stings like a bitch on any tiny scratch, cut or open massive foot blister you may have.

It's also traditional to cover yourself in - what I hope is - mud.

Settle yourselves down now.

Ian 16

Desert nip.

This is about halfway through an epic trek across the Jordanian desert. 101km over 6 days walking from Dana nature reserve to Petra.

It was really hot, unbelievably windy - one night one of the tents blew down and almost flew off a 50m cliff - and much more rocky and less sandy than you'd imagine.

I've a killer blister on the side of my foot and black toenails that are destined to fall off and disgust me soon! I reckon I'll be limping for weeks.

Need a holiday to recover :)

Ian 15

Madness nip.

I'd not had enough

This was not the end of the madness, nor the start of the end of the madness this was mid-madness at Europe's daftest idea. Oktoberfest.

Nearly 200,000 piss heads singing to Oompah-Lupah music and wearing daft hats. This is something that should never be missed.

It's all on next year I too - start saving your pennies this should not be missed.

But really this is exactly what Oktoberfest is all about...

Ian 14

Business nip.

What a palaver I've had!

Had to go to Germany and France to see some factories so flew to Nuremberg on Monday. Nuremberg's really good, magic schnitzel, chips and beer.

After looking at the factory I needed to go to St Etienne in France to see another. This meant flying to Amsterdam, connecting to Lyon and then hiring a car to drive the last bit.

Well delayed flights, storms, technical faults on planes and a work to rule KLM flight crew refusing to do overtime left me stranded in Lyon with the hire car place shut.

So this is me "enjoying" my emergency pot noodle, a snaffled bottle of wine from the plane and a trusty nip in an airport hotel room at 1:30 am.

Living the dream :)